Word: cobain
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...with his latest set of post-apocalyptic ditties, Nine Inch Nails' Broken. Like his industrial brethren Ministry and Skinny Puppy, Reznor revels in echo beats and electronic tom-toms in overdrive. His voice careens between a whisper and a roar, then lurches full throttle into screams that make Kurt Cobain look like Billie Holiday...
From within as well as from without, alternative rock is an interesting jumble or a total mess, depending on your point of view. There is constant infighting among musicians as to who is really alternative and who is merely posing. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, quoted in Rolling Stone, says he feels the "duty to warn kids of false music that's claiming to be underground or alternative," while his band itself is roundly criticized for selling out. Rampant accusations of cheesiness from all sides give this kind of continuous conflict a kind of Maoist tone--no one is ever revolutionary...
...other group, it is Nirvana that typifies the new Seattle heat. "I feel stupid and contagious/ Here we are now, entertain us," is one of Teen Spirit's more memorable lyric refrains, fully characteristic of the band's spiky style. The core members of Nirvana, lead singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Chris Novoselic, teened together in Aberdeen, Wash., and teamed up to form Nirvana in 1987 (drummer David Grohl signed on later). Both were fans of the brooding postpunk musical musings of Husker Du, as well as of the shameless theatricality of Kiss. Nirvana's first album, Bleach...
Seattle rockers take almost as much pride in their ornery individuality as in their music. "I can't stand it when people come up to me and say, 'Congratulations on your success!' " Cobain told a music magazine recently. "I want to ask them, 'Do you like the songs?' Selling 2 million records isn't useful to me unless they're good...